Here Are The 4 Ways You're Going To Completely Revolutionize Your Mornings

by N/A, 8 years ago | 2 min read

A report from the World Heath Organization shows the average American life expectancy is 79 years old. What that means is that, if you do a little math and you actually start doing adult-like activities, you have ~22,000 mornings in your adult life. Assuming you start acting like an adult as a 20-year-old, and you make it to 80 years of age, that's 60 years as an adult multiplied by 365 days a year.

So, with that many mornings in your adult life, what are you going to do with them? Be lazy? NO!

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1. Set a schedule and have a routine for how you're going to do things in the mornings, and never ever deviate from that.

If you set a schedule for yourself, whether it be the week before or the night before, you'll save yourself multiple hours of trying to get yourself going in the right direction of a morning. As you can see, it helps for me to simply remind myself:

"C'mon, get it together!"

By doing this, every morning when I look at the calendar I know what it is that I need to do. Rather than slacking off, I can remember to push ahead full steam into my day, and it all starts with a little bit of planning.

2. Don't open any websites or applications that have notification capabilities, because being notified about something takes your mind off the tasks you should be tackling.

Okay, so I may not have any notifications as you can see here, so it's probably easier for me to not look at my notifiable apps and websites than the rest of you, but I also understand just how distracting these things. If the first thing you do in the morning is look at any of the various digital outlets trying to notify you of something, you're going to deviate from the plan in which you laid out in point #1 of this list: make a morning plan.

3. In fact, turn your phone off until you've got stuff you need to get done in the morning, and gotten your day going in the right direction.

If your phone is on, there will always be the temptation to look at it instead of the task you have in front of you. If you're stopping every few moments to look at your phone at those notifiable "V. Distracting Stuff" you're going to waste away most of your morning, and before you know it, it'll be lunch. And, let's be honest, nobody wants to work after lunch! So, "C'mon, get it together," and get your work that requires the most creative brain-power done before it's too late.

4. Once you've successfully avoided your phone for the majority of the morning and set a routine to keep yourself on track, do the mindless activities left in your to-do list during the afternoon.

To be more clear, this is the moment you can turn your phone back on! If you've been productive all morning and gotten your duties done, the afternoon is your chance to really enjoy yourself. Check those emails. Review all your notifications. Listen to voicemails from your grandma! You've earned this time, because you've been a very productive morning person, rather than being lazy and distracted, and it all started with a simple daily schedule of morning routines.